Word: aztecs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aztec. A beetle-browed 200-pounder whose suits seem a size too small, 46-year-old Jacques Soustelle is well suited for his wrecker's work; he looks like an able-bodied warehouseman who has unaccountably wandered into the National Assembly from Les Halles markets. In reality, he is a coldly brilliant scholar who graduated from Paris' famed Ecole Normale Supérieure at 20, won fame as an anthropologist by a series of notable books on the Incas and Aztecs. Soustelle's travels in Latin America with his Tunis-born wife-also an anthropologist...
Cover Girl. In Aztec, N. Mex., Sheriff Dan Sullivan missed two prisoners, peeked behind a big pinup picture in their cell, found a 10-by-14-in. hole cut into the quarter-inch steel wall...
...display of rare sculpture, pottery, and gold and jade ornaments from the Mayan and Aztec cuture is now open to the public at the Peabody Museum...
...COLUMBIAN ART, by S. K. Lothrop, et al. A stunning collection of aboriginal American art, beautifully photographed, mostly in color. From handsome Mexican pottery to Aztec masks and Peruvian textile designs, the emphasis is on useful or ceremonial art that frequently achieves high reaches of imagination and workmanship...
...form of amoebic dysentery, a severe, life-threatening disease. Last week, though Mexicans stoutly insist that their country is not so bad as others to the south, Mexico City's local government took a major step toward eliminating what is variously known as turista, the Aztec two-step, and Montezuma's revenge. In the capital's big, sparkling new Jamaica Market, and in a dozen smaller ones, watchful health inspectors installed a rigorous system of spraying fruits and vegetables with a chemical named Mobidin (containing colloidal silver and copper). The chemical, it is claimed, kills every germ...